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ORNL’s CASL, Westinghouse simulate neutron behavior in nuclear reactor core

Posted at 1:06 pm February 19, 2014
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AP1000 Pressurized Water Reactor

CASL is developing and applying new modeling and simulation technology (Virtual Environment for Reactor Applications Core Simulator or VERA-CS) to resolve and predict the detailed neutron distribution of the power-generation reactor core residing in reactor vessels. (Image courtesy of Westinghouse)

Test run signals emergence of the next generation in nuclear power reactor analysis tools

Scientists and engineers developing more accurate approaches to analyzing nuclear power reactors have successfully tested a new suite of computer codes that closely model “neutronics”—the behavior of neutrons in a reactor core.

Technical staff at Westinghouse Electric Company LLC, supported by the research team at the Consortium for Advanced Simulation of Light Water Reactors, or CASL, used the Virtual Environment for Reactor Applications core simulator (VERA-CS) to analyze its AP1000 advanced pressurized water reactor. The testing focused on modeling the startup conditions of the AP1000 plant design. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Business, Front Page News, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Science, U.S. Department of Energy Tagged With: AP1000, Bob Oelrich, CASL, Consortium for Advanced Simulation of Light Water Reactors, DOE, Doug Kothe, engineering, Fausto Franceschini, Generation III+ reactor, Innovation Hub, John Turner, neutron, neutronics, nuclear reactor, nuclear science, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, ORNL, pressurized water reactor, PWR, reactor analysis, reactor core, U.S. Department of Energy, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, VERA-CS, Virtual Environment for Reactor Applications core simulator, Westinghouse, Westinghouse Electric Company LLC

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